[WBEL-users] How Do I Set Up a Local Up2date Server?

[Greg Knaddison]

So...I tried the set of scripts/actions you recommended and things
seem to work well.  I'm only syncing the updates so I only changed the
"updates-released" server in my yum.conf.

The only odd behavior that I have is that my systems were previously
pointed at the default yum servers and I had run updated them via yum
a few days ago.  After doing the rsync and apache change and the
yum.conf change and re-running yum check-update, I get many many
packages which say that they need to be updated.  One on box I
performed the update (yum -y update) and rebooted and everything seems
to be fine.  But I'm a little confused why it wanted to update them at
all.

Thanks in advance for any insight and thanks to George for the
instructions for setting up a local server.

Greg


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:21:08 -0500, Kirby C. Bohling
<kbohling@birddog.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:19:40PM -0700, George Salt wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've been running WBEL for a few weeks now.  I like
> > it, and I'm planning to install it on a few more
> > machines on my LAN.
> >
> > Is it possible to download all of the update rpms to
> > one machine, and then use that machine as the up2date
> > server for the other machines on my LAN?  If someone
> > could point me to an existing HowTo doc, that would be
> > great.
> 
> If all you want to do is duplicate an existing yum repository, (as
> opposed to creating a new one from scratch).
> 
> If you know how to setup apache and run rsync, it's trivial.
> 
> I use this as my shell script, pick one of the two mirrors by
> uncommenting "RSYNC_BASE".
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #RSYNC_BASE="rsync://mirrors.esat.net/ftp/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/ "
> #RSYNC_BASE="rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/whitebox/ "
> versionList="3.0"
> 
> for ver in $versionList
> do
>         for subdir in os updates
>         do
>                 echo "Fetching WhiteBox: /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/"
>                 mkdir -p /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/
>                 rsync -avr -P --delete $RSYNC_BASE/$ver/en/$subdir/.  /mirrors/whitebox/$ver/en/$subdir/.
>         done
> done
> 
> # EOF
> 
> That will duplicate the files to your local machine, in a path
> looking like this:
> 
> /mirrors/whitebox/3.0/en/updates
> 
> Now, just setup Apache to allow access to that directory by doing
> something like this in your config files:
> 
> <Directory "/mirrors">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> Alias /mirrors "/mirrors"
> 
> <Directory "/mirrors/whitebox">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> Just cron up the rsync script, and you should be good to go.  One of
> the nice things about yum is that, it's very, very simple to mirror
> an existing repository.  You can go ahead and create a new
> repository using yum-arch, but I've never done that.
> 
> Now, "http://server.name/mirrors/whitebox " should serve up pages.
> Once that's working, go change the baseurl lines in /etc/yum.conf to
> point at the existing server, and you're done.
> 
> If you need more detail instructions, just ask, but that's the 5
> minute version of how I did it.
> 
>         Thanks,
>                 Kirby
> 
> 
> 
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